1.
CREATE A PLAN
2.
SELECT ASSESSMENT
TYPE AND
METHODOLOGY
7.
REPORT FINDINGS
Division of
Student Affairs
Cycle of
Assessment
6.
EVALUATE THE
PROGRAM
5.
ANALYZE DATA
Use data to
improve
program/service
*Identify gap
between desired
aims and actual
outcomes
Define
assessment
purpose
Link to CI
or DSA
performance
indicators
3.
CREATE ASSESSMENT
MEASURES
4.
IMPLEMENT PROGRAM
AND COLLECT DATA
Determine methodology
• Quantitative
• Qualitative
*Relates to program assessment
Create
research
questions
Ethical
considerations
Create
objectives
•Accountability and
program improvement
•Tracking
•Needs assessment
•Benchmarking
•Measure against
professional standards
•Student learning
outcomes
•Campus environments
•Campus culture
•Assessment of staff
competencies
•Student satisfaction
•What do we want
to know?
•Why do we want to
know it?
•*What is working?
•*What is not working?
•CI and DSA missions
•General education
outcomes
•Institutional Review
Board
•Informed consent
•Data access and
ownership
•Principles of good
practice in assessment
student learning
•Program
•Learning
•Development
Determine assessment type
• Formative v. summative
• Indirect v. direct